Editing Lynn Haven, Florida (section)

==History==
[[File:Lynn Haven FL Union mnmt02.jpg|thumb|left|Union soldier monument]]
Lynn Haven was founded in 1911 by Union veterans from the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mormino |first1=Gary R. |title=Twentieth-Century Florida: A Bibliographic Essay |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=Winter 2017 |volume=95 |issue=3 |page=295 |jstor=44955689 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44955689 |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref> The town was named after W. H. Lynn, a primary stockholder of the St. Andrews Bay Development Company, the corporation that owned and developed the land on which Lynn Haven grew.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Lynn Haven |url=https://www.cityoflynnhaven.com/268/History-of-Lynn-Haven |website=www.cityoflynnhaven.com |publisher=City of Lynn Haven |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>

On October 10, 2018, [[Hurricane Michael]] made landfall near Lynn Haven. The 3rd strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in the contiguous United States was the first category 5 hurricane to strike the United States since [[Hurricane Andrew]] in 1992.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hurricane Michael Hits Georgia |url=https://www.weather.gov/ffc/2018_hurricane_michael |website=weather.gov |publisher=National Weather Service |access-date=1 September 2022}}</ref> Hurricane Michael displaced thousands of Lynn Haven residents.